Something a little different for you here. Wizards of the Coast has put out an official D&D cookbook. Being an amateur cook, myself, I'm certainly interested in seeing what sort of recipes are inside (and if anyone needs a holiday gift for me, this could work very well :P ). You can pick up your copies of Heroes' Feast now.

From the website:

80 recipes inspired by the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons—perfect for a solo quest or a feast shared with fellow adventurers.

From the D&D experts behind Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana comes a cookbook that invites fantasy lovers to learn about their favorite fictional cultures through their unique cuisines and lifestyles. With this book, you can prepare dishes delicate enough to dine like elves and their drow cousins or hearty enough to feast like a dwarven clan or a boisterous orcish horde. All eighty dishes—developed by a professional chef from one of the country's top test kitchens—are delicious, easy to prepare, and composed of wholesome ingredients readily found in our world.

Heroes' Feast includes recipes for snacking, such as Bytopian Shepherd's Bread, Iron Rations, savory Hand Pies, and Hogs in Bedrolls, as well as hearty vegetarian, meaty, and fish mains, such as Amphail Braised Beef, Hommlet Golden Brown Roasted Turkey, Drow Mushroom Steaks, and Moonshae Seafood Risotto. There are also featured desserts and cocktails—like Heartlands Roseapple & Blackberry Pie, Yawning Portal Biscuit, and Chultan Zombie—and everything in between, to satisfy a craving for any adventure.

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A character's character sheets are basically what brings it to life. Without those, it's just a concept in your head. But instead of just having some overly-worn, smudged, boring regular sheets, Beadle & Grimm is bringing you deluxe Complete Character Chronicles. If you really want to pamper your Pathfinder character, you'll want to check these out. The project is up on Kickstarter now.

From the campaign:

The Complete Character Chronicles, the tools you need to tell your story, and the pages to preserve it.

What does that mean?

It means that we take that heap of books, character sheets, and journals stacked up in front of you at the table and distill it down into one book that contains:

• 20+ page character sheet. Everything you need at your fingertips, including plenty of room for home-brew rules, familiars, allies and enemies, and more.
• All the rules from the Pathfinder 2e Core Rulebook and Advanced Player Guide that you need to run your character, and only your character. What does that mean for you, a Wizard? It means a spellbook with only Wizard spells.
• A journal for you to record your character's entire story.

What goes into building the Chronicles? How about:

• Full page, 8 1/2 by 11 design
• Vegan Leather Cover beautifully decorated with an embossed foil design
• Sturdy lay-flat binding
• Thick paper for the areas that you're going to write on
• Glossy paper for the rules
• Artwork from the Pathfinder universe, as well as custom pieces commissioned by us for the Character Chronicles

The Kickstarter is working its way to 2x funded with 33 days left to go.

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Just don't call them "Space Babypuppies!" as much as you want to (I really, really want to). They're the Space Wolves and they're getting a new codex that you can pre-order this weekend. But what sort of new rules will be coming in said codex? Glad you asked, as we get a look at some of them in this preview.

From the article:

The Space Wolves are a fierce warrior brotherhood of legendary heroes, each vying to earn a saga that will grant them immortality in the tales told by the skjalds of their Chapter. Their new codex supplement will be available to pre-order this Saturday, and today we’re looking at some of the Stratagems and Relics that are included in this mighty tome, as well as introducing how their Warlord Traits reward mighty deeds in battle.

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The pandemic continues and it's not looking like it'll end soon. So, keeping one's distance is still as important as ever. That means possibly playing your board games on your lonesome. Well, if you've been playing the Arcadia Quest solo rules and wish there was an update, you're in luck. That's just what we've got here.

From the update:

Greetings, Arcadians! Guilherme Goulart and Fred Perret here again, today to bring you update 1.2, in which we implement Arcadia Quest: Inferno, Whole Lotta Lava, Pets, and Beyond the Grave to the Solo Mode - there's plenty of new content added and some to discuss! There's also a rule development regarding how to determine the closest monster to a Spawn token.

As of the writing of this update we have over 240 entries on the form, which provide us with invaluable data to polish and tune the Solo Mode. Thank you for your continued support! We were glad to read that the clarifications of the rules on Update 1.1 seem to have solved some of your questions, but we saw 2 questions popping up:

• "Can I complete the same PvE Quest two times to get both Rewards Cards associated with it?"

• "The Spawn tile is almost full and during my turn I kill a number of enemies. After filling the Spawn tile, what should I do with the remaining figures?"

Following our philosophy of the Solo Mode to introduce as little new rules and exceptions as possible, for both questions the base rules of the game apply: players can only complete each Quest once (Inferno Rulebook pg. 26), and when the Spawn tile is full and more monsters are killed, the extra ones are simply removed from play (Inferno Rulebook pg. 24). Hope that clears it! This note has also been added to the 1.2 document.

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Arguably the coolest enemy in the Star Wars saga, Darth Maul captivated audiences and his fight on Naboo is a high point of the Prequels. Soon, players in Star Wars: Legion will have a new Darth Maul figure to add to their collection, along with his Sith Droids in order to hunt down and destroy the Jedi forever.

From the article:

Darth Sidious’ minions operate in the shadows, fomenting unrest and bending galactic conflict to their master’s will. Of them, one dark warrior stands above all the rest: Darth Maul.

Sidious’ young apprentice is eager to test his skills against the Republic’s Jedi Knights, and with the aid of his DRK-1 Sith Probe Droids, he will hunt down any enemy of the Sith. Soon, you too can harness Maul’s rage with the Darth Maul and Sith Probe Droids Operative Expansion for Star Wars™: Legion!

With this expansion, Darth Maul can do your bidding as part of your Separatist army. Maul is brought to life on the battlefield by a beautifully detailed, unpainted hard plastic miniature that can be assembled in three distinct poses with two different head options. First, he can appear brandishing his iconic double-bladed lightsaber in his right hand in front of him or preparing to strike with the lightsaber in his left hand behind him. Finally, Maul can be assembled menacing his opponents with both hands on his lightsaber. Meanwhile, Maul can be accompanied by a detachment of three DRK-1 Sith Probe Droid miniatures that observe his enemies from afar.

However you choose to assemble and deploy your miniatures, two unit cards lay out all of Maul and his probe droids’ abilities. Already a powerful individual combatant, Maul can alter the flow of battle with his three signature command cards that tap even more deeply into his rage. Finally, eight upgrade cards give you the chance to further augment Maul’s abilities by completing his training or giving him additional Force abilities.

Read on for a full look at the Darth Maul and Sith Probe Droids Operative Expansion!

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Bananas. They're a wonderful fruit. You can just eat them out of the peel. You can fry them. You can turn them into bread. You can do a lot with 'em, so when you work at a banana wholesale company, you've gotta move fast to get bunches of bananas out to the people. That's what you'll be doing in Banana Hammock, a new card game that's up on Kickstarter now.

From the campaign:

Welcome to Banana Grabbers Packing Co!

Banana Hammock is a fast and frenetic game, set as a day in the life of a Banana Grabbers Packing Co employee. You'll make bunches of bananas and put them into your crate. Make the most bunches and you just may end up as the Employee of the Month! Watch out though, because even the best laid plans can fall prey to monkey business!

The campaign is up and running now with 17 days left to go.

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You wouldn't find me caught dead on a cruise ship. Just too many bad things can happen. Like, you can be caught dead! That's what's happened in Midnight Murder Mysteries. A body has been found on a cruise ship and the different detectives aboard are all trying to be the first to solve the case. This new edition of the game is up on Kickstarter now.

From the campaign:

The prime suspects are the occupants of the VIP cabins on the upper deck. They are the only ones who could have had access. You and your fellow private detectives are participating in a conference aboard the ship, and you all decide to make a bet to solve the murder. Who among you will prove to be the finest sleuth?

The story-based competitive crime investigation game Midnight Murder Mysteries takes you on an unpredictable voyage, in which you must try to reconstruct the circumstances of the alleged crime…

Who is the murderer? What was their motive? How did the victim die? These are the questions you will need to answer once the ship has docked… Or after another detective discloses what they have found!

The campaign is up and running now and is set to go for another 13 days.

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<whoop! whoop! whoop!> Giant robot alert! We have giant robot alert! Arclight Games cancelled their previous campaign for Dragon Gyas, wanting to tinker around with it some more in the meantime. Well, it's back up on Kickstarter now.

From the campaign:

Welcome to Dragon Gyas—a unique board game in which players control one of two sides: the Royal Order and their giant robot known as the Hexgyas or the Grandragon and dragonewts bent on extinction of human race.

The project was already run at the Japanese crowdfunding site Makuake, where it took the title of #1 most funded board game with approximately $140,000 pledged by fans! 

Due to the success on the Japan side, we have readjusted the required funding goal for the Kickstarter campaign.

And follow our twitter and assist this project.

The campaign's about 1/3 of the way to its goal with 6 days to go.

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Grab your headbands, put on your best orange top, brush up on your jutsus, and stretch your arms so you can run with them directly back behind you, Japanime Games has announced they're teaming up with Don't Panic Games to bring you Naruto: Ninja Arena.

From the announcement:

Japanime Games is proud to announce another partnership with Don't Panic Games (Cowboy Bebop: Space Serenade) to bring Naruto: Ninja Arena to wider audiences beyond just Europe.We previously worked with Don't Panic Games on the release of Cowboy Bebop: Space Serenade earlier this year, and we could not be happier to work with them again given the praise and success witnessed with Cowboy Bebop: Space Serenade. 

Naruto: Ninja Arena is a competitive, fast-paced game all about simultaneous dice rolling for 2-4 players, ages 10 and up. You and your opponents all take on characters in the Naruto universe battling it out in real-time to be the last ninja standing. Every character has their own abilities and each player has their own dice pools. As a round starts, all players roll their dice at the same time, trying to match symbols on their dice based on what character abilities they have. As players activate abilities, they will mark their opponents for potential, future damage. Once a player has correctly collected the necessary symbols for their ultimate, special ability, they'll slap an Uzumaki spiral in the center of the board to signify this and damage is dealt. In this brief pause, the player who slapped the spiral last will take extra damage and the players will resolve the effects. This damage is applied based on the markers distributed by players activating their abilities.

“It is great to have a new, exciting Naruto game available to fans. This game really captures the frenetic action that is difficult to capture from the exciting fights that Anime often depicts” said Eric Price, President of Japanime Games. Naruto: Ninja Arena is expected to release in Q1 of 2021.

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I'm tired. Just all the tired. I need to be getting more sleep. But I also have a new roommate in the form of a cat and we're still trying to figure out each-other's schedules and such. I also have a ton of stuff to get done. So, to keep myself awake, I have some Mountain Dew and I also have some podcasts to listen to. Let's see what's on the dial for this week:

The Secret Cabal Episode 217: Paranormal Detectives, Abomination The Heir of Frankenstein and Nightmare Gaming Stories

Muwahahahaha! It's Halloween again and ghoulish Founders are back to give you a spooky episode filled with Halloweeny games for you to enjoy. Today we look at Horrified, Friday the 13th: Horror at Camp Crystal Lake, Name 5, Dire Alliance, Dead Man’s Cabal and Armata Strigoi! Then Don and Jamie give a horrifying review of Paranormal Detectives from Lucky Duck Games and the gang looks back at Abomination The Heir of Frankenstein from Plaid Hat Games. Then after Tony T delivers the frightening news cast the ghoulies retell some nightmare gaming stories!

Rolling Dice & Taking Names Episode 212: Guild Master, Raiders of Scythia, Seastead, AH – Under Dark Waves, My City, Overlight Puzzle

Every year we are given the opportunity to find a game that just floors us. Last year, we loved City of the Big Shoulders. This year, Guild Master has done the same thing, just taken our breath away. It is simple and elegant in how it plays. It provides tension and interaction without being complicated. And most importantly it has dice. We hope you get a chance to play it, we are looking forward to getting it back on the table.

Seastead is a two player game that isn’t one of those fast table fillers while waiting for a game to finish. It has meat to it and feels like a chess match at times. Here you have to be very strategic in how to claim victory points for the win because you can mess up and give the win to your opponent if not careful.

Raiders of Scythia is a reimplementation of Raiders of the North Sea and as you will hear, one that would we really enjoyed and prefer over the other. While it is a game that is plays very similar, the removal of certain elements really speed the game up and hone in on the important aspects that we enjoy.

And the wives have returned for game reviews and the Puzzle segment is back. Be sure and enter the contest to win the Renegade Puzzle Overlight. You can find the form here.